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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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